MGQ3 Second Status Update

In other news, Dargoth finished off the last of the Desire Dungeon translation! It’s another Monster Girl game, half “consensual” and half not. I thought it was fun, so I started working on translating it before MGQ3 came out. Then I selfishly dragged Dargoth into it, and abandoned him like an ass as MGQ Part 3 came out. But he finished off the last of it, and it’s available to download on his blog at http://dargothtranslations.wordpress.com/ ! I’d recommend giving it a try this weekend, it is quite fun.

I’m waiting for the final patch to come out b4 i go off and download the game and when i do i think i might start again just cus i like the story get that whole nostalgia bit while i go through again probly turn on skip already viewed scenes just in case lol (probly not tho ;P) :)

If you could do so, and do it to the same excellent quality Rogue does, I think all of us would appreciate it – not least Rogue himself since he would be spared the tedium. If you in fact can’t, then please shut up and let the master work his craft.

Allow me to repeat myself: I’m under the assumption that you’re not a Troll. This topic DOES concern monster girls that force themselves on men after all, so if anyone’s going to try and blow him first, it would definitely be the Trolls.

Do you even know how difficult it is to translate Japanese into English? I myself can only translate one page of text in 2/3 hours from a beginner’s book. Our hero, Rogue translates this MGQ3 alone without any significant flaws… If you can’t even be patient to wait, just leave and don’t say a thing….

I am going to make a request that you are, of course, totally free to ignore. I would love a partial patch at where it is right now. The demo was so astoundingly short, yet we all enjoyed that. I and perhaps others would’ve been estatic with even a 10-20% patch, a 28.4% patch would be amazing to tide over while you are doing your thing in July :)

Given the machine that Rogue is, I have to think that play testing and dealing with bugs associated with putting out a patch is more of a hassle than the actual translation. It’s not as easy as hitting ‘save’ then uploading a file.

Putting together the patch takes a little bit of time, but not much. The only issue that comes into play are the save files… If you’re modifying the script a decent amount, then it has the risk to mess up your saves and have negative or unintended consequences. I also like to have a pick up and go attitude toward translating, where I may work for a few hours and do a few scenes in a row, or maybe just half of a scene when I have time. Then I’ll plan for a certain patch day, and free up hours of my time to release it and fix any crashes/bugs that people discover.

If I’m not mistaken there’s been a patch for part 3 released on the main site. I have no idea what it’s for but I read somewhere that it has something to do with the epilogue. Also, I’m guessing I don’t have to do anything with the three text files included in the patch.

I also want to know where we can donate money, I would have never been able to play the MGQ series without you, and I’ve gotten way more entertainment out of them than some $60 triple A games i’ve purchased

I appreciate the offers, but I’m doing this because I enjoy it, not for monetary or any other sort of compensation. I didn’t ask permission to do this, so I wouldn’t feel right taking money for it either. Not to mention the questionable legality of the whole thing itself. If you want to support the game, just buy it off english dlsite instead!

Definitely going to buy the game by the time a partial patch is ready, want to make sure we see another title in a year or so. With how popular MGQ is, I’m sure there will be someone willing to translate whatever Toro Toro follows up with.

Got a bug you should know about ahead of time for translating. It’s late game, so I’ll try not to spoil.

One of the succubi (I can only guess her name as Eva. I recognize the ‘a’ on the end, anyway.) has a counter attack, and this triggers a grab. Losing to this grab in the monsterpedia is a problem. If you return to the monsterpedia, everything seems fine, but right clicking out of it drops right back into battle. No enemy sprite, no health bar (It’s there but all grey.) on either side, no status effect sprite, no SP counter, 0 HP for Luka (But you can heal.), the grab doesn’t carry over, the monsterpedia’s background music continues playing, and the abilities the ‘fight’ gives you aren’t what you should have at that point.

The game corrects its sprite errors when it becomes relevant. (Enemy changes stance due to grab or such, their sprite will start showing correctly. Get hit with a status effect, the sprite begins showing. Heal, Luka’s HP and SP show. Deal damage, enemy HP shows.) I’m guessing it’s possible to win the fight like this, but I didn’t go far enough to do that.

I’ve been messing with the Nscript of Part 2, so I know enough to take a guess and say it’s probably a coding loophole forgetting to say the battle ended, seeing as you can still access the right click menu. I can’t read enough Japanese to take a peek in Part 3’s script and check for myself, so I feel kinda envious of you there. If I turn out wrong, my mistake.

I don’t know if Torotoro managed to replicate and correct this already, but if he didn’t, then I figure it’s best to let the other expert know and see if they know how to handle it.

Like I said at the bottom, I wasn’t sure if Torotoro had already fixed it or not. In either case, somebody fixed the problem in the end, so I’m glad it’s fixed since what the problem did was just really confusing.

Oh, the 2 new CGs would be nice too. Might get that patch to figure out what they are. …If I can find the link in the Japanese text, that is.

Thank you, if not for your translation I would have overlooked this game and it has become one of my all time favorites. I am amazed that you have managed to translate so much in such a short amount of time.

IMO, The reason he is so fast is probably because he enjoys it. If he didn’t he wouldn’t spend the large amount of time I bet he does into working on this. It’s the same with a lot of different tasks. you can’t really be “good” at them unless you enjoy it.

Rogue do you know someone who is willing to translate a Yaoi visual novel called Laughter Land I found it on the visual novel database it is published in both Japanese and Chinese here is the address http://vndb.org/v1076.

anyone know how to get that second rape scene with the mermaid thats right after the young mermbaid, I’ve tried all sorts of things and I still can’t get her to use those last to moves she seems to never use or only use when I’m protected from them which means I can’t unlock the requests for them. I’ve beat the game and 100% on everything but this one scene and those two moves QQ help me complete this game MY PRIDE AS A FAN DEPENDS UPON IT!

I can’t give you a specific response because I can’t play the game yet like you mention, but I’d guess it’s just something where you have to keep playing unprotected until you get it (heh.) I remember it taking me forever to get Level Drain from the Succubus Chief in part 2. If you’re not protected with Silph, she’s about ten times more likely to just insta-gib you. Eventually she’ll use it though. Maybe the mermaid queen is different though, I don’t know.

I know this has been said, like, a thousand times already, but thank you Rogue Translator for taking your time on translating this game. This game has been a life saver for me, with it’s badass storyline, & of course the rape scene’s are awesome. Keep up the good work.

fleshlight is lowest quality there is on market, and sucks not in the good way.
Get onahole, they are more expensive whit price of 80-140 but worth it.
example is: Meiki no Shoumei series.
There is also plenty of “monster” type onaholes, ranging from fairy’s to succubus.
PS: japan is wonderful place for pervy stuff it seems ;D

I noticed that I can run the game on Windows 8 without applocale or changing any settings but generates some kind of error at the part where the King of San Ilias and the Fairies and blue guardsmen silhouettes are talking in the prologue

If I remember reading correctly from torotoro, It’s said their whole intention is that the all 3 MGQ are technically just 1, split in 3 parts. To answer your question yes you will be. However, if you can after rogue has patched it is not my call.

You can combine the three parts right now (even pre-translation, though it’s probably easier to wait if you can’t read the menus.) That includes your prior record and monsterpedia. After combining, you can start the game from the beginning or the start of chapter 3.

I’m not sure if there’s any way to carry saves over though. Just copying over the save folder isn’t working for me. Then again, playing through again to have my saves at every major point isn’t really a problem :)

Yeah you can carry over the saves. Just copy gloval.sav and save.dat, I did that and it carried over. Not sure about monsterpedia entries as I can’t access the old ones it looks like, but I do see my save files when clicking to load. I don’t know what the other files did in the save directory so I left them alone.

I am just waiting for Rogue’s first partial patch to do that. He’ll probably give instructions on how to combine them, and the menus will be translated too.

I can wait. Actually might wait all the way until the complete patch is finished first, I’ll be a tad busy the next month, honestly the next few months probably, so this game to me is like a reward I am saving for myself.

Hey Rogue. It’s me, Alyssia, again. Remember around like a year ago when we had this conversation:

“Hi!

I’m sure you don’t know me, but I (despite not really playing this game for H, the somewhat comedy is pretty hilarious and whatnot) really appreciate what you do for everyone here. While my Japanese is somewhat adequate, by no means am I good enough to translate Visual Novels into English and things.

But that’s not what I came here to email you for. I downloaded your Monmosu Quest 2 Patch and realized that it was a copy paste patch rather than an actual executable. Your patches are great, so I am willing to offer making an installer executable for your game if you want. I can create it from scratch but that’s usually a hassle so I can make it into an NSIS format and then compress it. Again, I’m not doing this unless you give a proper approval and agreement, and then we can work things out from there, if you want me to make an installer for you.”

And you replied it with:

“Hey, I appreciate the offer. I think for now I’ll stick with the low-grade copy/paste stuff. But when Part 3 comes out, I was hoping to get a more advanced installer that would do everything (Install the patches, prompt user for old arc.nsa files from Part 1 and 2 to combine them all into the “full” game in part 3, etc…). If you’re still interested then, that would be awesome.”

I’m giving you a heads up to say that my offer is still up. I wish you the best of luck on your translation. Godspeed.

well rogue said hopefully mid july so it MIGHT come out in the next week or so but i wouldnt get your hopes up. expect the patch to come out end of july early august, that way if it does come out sooner its a nice suprise

Hey guys. i got a problem that recently appeared in my mgq games.
-when going to load savegame page it scrolls to the bottom and stays there. i cant do anything xept quit the game
-when in game or options wherever the text box is present it goes on automatically. ive tried changing on the options but nothing works.

It sounds like you have a button of some sort held down. Ctrl skips through the text box, and the scroll wheel and a few other things fly through both the text box and the save menu. If there’s no input at all, I’m not sure what the issue could be, that sounds like an external problem.

Gosh , waiting for it is so painful… I guess I replayed the game like 5 times from MGQ 1 and 2 not skipping a single dialogue or scenes… And now I am playing MGQ 3 japanese version not understanding a single shit. I guess I will just replay from the start again…

how long till the patch comes rogue the wait is killing me. I beat the game but I didn’t understand any of it and there are some monsters that I thought were pretty neat and am now waiting for the English patch so i can understand why luka is facing those monsters and the story itself. I hope with your mad translating skills rogue that you will be able to complete the 40% patch soon so i can start part 3.

None of the boss fights are that long. But now I understand why some people keep insisting the game is so easy for them, they just save and load every time. I only save the game when I need to and most of the fights in this game are luck (whether you get a dodge, whether you hit with an attack etc.). The most luck based fights seemed to be a few of the boss fights, like the two vampire/succubus ones and I think the final Alma Elma one.

If you play the game on hard you’ll have many instances where the following happens:

On normal mode I don’t think you get those misses, or they’re a lot rarer. I’ve also never failed to struggle out of a bind attack on normal if I had gnome, but on hard I constantly see these things happen.

Is it because my computer isn’t in Japanese region mode that MGQ3 crashes about 30 paragraphs into the game during the prologue? even thought parts 1 and 2 work fine on my new pc that has Windows 8. (There are a few graphical anomalies where parts of sprites are left on screen during changes)

I don’t know if it’s just me but I can save anywhere in MGQ 1 and 2 including while I’m in battle.Click save, pick a save file and confirm it but instead of clicking the next button and getting a error just press esc key and it saves.

That method of saving also work on mine. Actually I’m doing it since the first time playing MGQ3.
This is just my thought, but maybe that error came out only if you try to play the game with auto-translated apps like Visual Novel Reader. It changes many in-game text automatically and maybe that makes it corrupt. Still can be loaded though